[Vision2020] NASA Climate Scientist Gavin Schmidt's New Book: Climate Change: Picturing the Science

[Ted Moffett]

http://ghgphotos.com/picturingclimatechange/

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*Climate Change: Picturing the science*. Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe, W.
W. Norton, April 2009

“Climate Change: Picturing the Science is a tour de force of public
education. It is simply the best available collection of essays by climate
scientists on the nature of human-induced climate change, the ways
scientists have come to understand and measure the risks that it poses, and
the options that we face….The editors, climatologist Gavin Schmidt and
photographer Joshua Wolfe, have produced a collection of essays of uniformly
outstanding quality, supported by photographs of beauty and insight.”

-Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, Earth Institute at
Columbia University

Publisher's description:

An unprecedented union of scientific analysis and stunning photography
illustrating the effects of climate change on the global ecosystem.

In this groundbreaking book, to be published by W.W. Norton & Company in
April 2009 NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and photographer Joshua
Wolfe illustrate as never before the ramifications of shifting weather
patterns for human society. Photographic spreads show us retreating
glaciers, sinking villages in Alaska’s tundra, drying lakes. The text
follows adventurous scientists through the ice caps at the poles to the
coral reefs of the tropical seas. Marshalling data spanning centuries and
continents, the book affirms the headlines with cutting-edge research and
visual records, including contributions from experts on atmospheric science,
oceanography, paleoclimatology, technology, politics, and the polar regions.


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